WIPO at the 38th Annual ATRIP Congress
September 3, 2019
The WIPO Academy continued its cooperation and support to the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) during its 38th Annual Congress held at the Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, United States of America, from August 25 to 28, 2019.
Mr. Sherif Saadallah, Executive Director of the WIPO Academy and Professor Chris Guthrie, Dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School, gave opening addresses at the start of the Congress on Monday August 26, 2019.
More than 120 academics and scholars from 34 countries took part in the Congress. This year’s Congress covered a wide range of topics on the theme of “Recreating Copyright Law, Redesigning Design Law, Resourcing Trademark Law, and Reinventing Patent Law” and included presentations on the following topics:
- Intellectual Property (IP), land and traditional knowledge;
- Patent dilemmas;
- Geographic indications in focus;
- Interfaces with big data and artificial intelligence; and
- The role of libraries and repositories in IP education and research.
The WIPO Academy also sponsored the participation of five academics at the ATRIP Annual Congress. They came from China, Mexico, Oman, Serbia and South Africa. As of 2019, 114 ATRIP participants from developing countries, least developed countries and countries with economies in transition, have benefited from this sponsorship.
About the ATRIP Annual Congress
The ATRIP Annual Congress is organized in different ATRIP member countries each year and allows experts in the field of IP to follow and discuss the ongoing developments in IP and IP teaching and research from an academic perspective.